contributing to ros

contributing to ros

asked 2013-08-28 09:42:02 -0500

vonovak
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Hi, I wrote a new package for ros groovy (here) and I would like to share it with others so that they can use just apt-get to install it. However, I have some questions before I do so:

there is a static library that the node needs to run. What should my CMakeLists.txt look like so that the library gets installed when somebody uses apt-get install?
This is more of a linux question: I read the page about contributing to ros - so I know I only share my repo. But the repo does not contain the executables. From what I have read online it seems that apt-get install does not involve any compiling - by using apt-get we are downloading executables right away. So where are they stored and how do they come to life?

thanks for anwerring

answered 2013-08-28 23:21:26 -0500

tfoote

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1) Usually packages are built with shared libraries when being installed onto a system. I recommend you do some reading on CMake Tutorials in general.

To contribute code back to the community there's a Contributing link on the home page www.ros.org

And from that you specifically want to look at http://ros.org/wiki/rosdistro/Tutorials/Indexing%20Your%20ROS%20Repository%20for%20Documentation%20Generation for releasing.

2) The released source is built into binary debian packages on a buildfarm and then stored in apt repositories. The web interface for the buildfarm is at http://jenkins.ros.org and the packages are hosted at http://packages.ros.org

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I still don't quite understand the answer to 1. My node needs an external library that I have downloaded and compiled and put it in the lib directory of the package. It is also in the repo. Will it get installed when I do all the steps in the page you linked?

vonovak ( 2013-08-28 23:40:42 -0500 )edit

If you downloaded and compiled that I'd recommend to provide the sources and include them in the build instead of a pre-compiled library. For binaries you'd need to provide builds for every system that will be supported.

dornhege ( 2013-08-29 01:06:03 -0500 )edit

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